Love Evolution Quotes

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

I feel like we go through different stages of love. When you get a little bit older, love starts to feel different, but you see that love has always been there.

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

A love grown old is not the love once new.

I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.

Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love

Love is something that is very personal to each individual based on where they are in their lives. It fluctuates and changes over time. I think there is a massive differentiation between infatuation and love, but people tend to confuse the two.

Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.

Love in all its forms is very difficult ... to express. It changes, obviously. If you’re young, and you’re romantically in love with somebody, and often if you’ve just met somebody, its crazy! It’s completely overwhelming. You can’t think of anything else. You just want to climb inside the other person and live under their pancreas. And then it mellows, somewhat... to the point where you can barely look at them... without feeling a mild distaste

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

Love changes, and in change is true.

Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.

Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

Love never stands still; it must inevitably be either growing or decaying - especially the love of marriage.

The purpose of romantic relationships is to encourage you to grow spiritually.

I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.

But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.

A relationship ends because you've outgrown it. It can begin again because you, as two, can fill the new shape.

If you go on loving a person deeply, by and by sex disappears. Intimacy becomes so fulfilling, then there is no need for sex; love is enough unto itself. When that moment comes then there is the possibility of prayer dawning upon you.